Embargoed until: 1pm, Thursday 30 October 2025
A new publication from TransActual, setting out in detail the devastating impact of legally questionable advice delivered by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is to be published this Thursday.
The report – The Gendered Spaces Review – is co-authored by academic and researcher, Dr Jack López, and Florence Corvi, and is based on evidence collected from trans and non trans people alike on their experiences accessing gendered spaces.
It demonstrates very clearly how individuals who fail to present within narrow societal preconceptions of gender have been harassed and abused as a direct result of EHRC ‘advice.’
The report shows a clear increase in the frequency of discrimination and harassment for everyone who responded to the call for evidence since the EHRC’s interim guidance.
Tammy Hymas, policy lead for TransActual, said: “This is what happens when a so-called human rights body, packed full of political appointees representing the views of a tiny group of anti-trans ideologues, decides to turn up the volume on policies designed to restrict the right of all people to express themselves in whichever way they please”
“Their ‘interim guidance,’ published within days of the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act in April 2025 was little more than glorified press release.
“There was no consultation with stakeholders – or even their own staff. It included legal inaccuracies and has since been withdrawn. And while it was big on how to exclude, it had nothing to say on how to include trans people in public life.
“Our report demonstrates beyond doubt the havoc that the guidance continues to wreak on the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people in the UK.
At a meeting with MPs this Thursday, TransActual will be handing over copies of the report. We will be explaining to them the harms implicit in the EHRC Draft Code of Practice; and we will be encouraging them to take action to prevent the Code, as it stands, from being laid in Parliament.
For further information
The report is based on an in-depth survey of trans community members following the Supreme Court Judgement and the EHRC Interim Update.
You will be able to download this report from here, from 1pm, 30 October 2025.
For further information of our Launch Event, or to discuss access to a copy of this report before that deadline, please contact jane fae via press@transactual.org.uk
Citation
Please cite this report as:
Title: Gendered Spaces and the Impact of the Supreme Court Judgement/EHRC Interim Update on Trans, Intersex and Gender Non-Conforming Adults
Authors: Dr Jack López and Florence Corvi
ISBN: 978-1-7392264-8-0
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